How to Batch Rename Files or Folders Using Bulk Rename Utility

Have you ever rename lot of files or folders which have a same pattern? If there are a few files or folders, it would be easy to rename each one at the time. You can press F2 on a file or folder to rename it instead of right-click on it and select Rename. But what if you want to rename more than 10 files, it would be waste time to rename each one by yourself. For example, you have photo files from your digital camera and the files are in pattern DSCxxxx.jpg where xxxx is a number, you may want to rename it to Thailandxxxx.jpg to make your files more descriptive.There is a free utility called Bulk Rename Utility which allows you to do batch rename files or folders on Windows. The utility performs quite fast and easy even the interface looks complicate. See Bulk Rename Utility for more details.

In the section below, I’ll show 2 examples of how to do batch rename files which are:

Summary

The Bulk Rename Utility can do batch rename files or folders different from examples above such as adding numbering on files, remove text on fixed position, add date to files, etc. It is free, fast and simple utility.

For MP3, you can extract information from ID3 tags but only V1 and V1.1 ID3 tags are supported. First, enable ID3 data extraction by click Options -> Extract -> ID3 Data (MP3). Next, select files that you want. Then, modify setting on the box – Add (7). The tags current available are:

%r – Artist

%l – Album

%t – Title

%k – Track Number

Kenneth JustApril 4, 2010

Hello,
I am batch exporting filenames and I have no control over the ouput name of each file. I need to rename each filename to a specific standard. I have created a text file that has the exported filename in one column and what the filename should be renamed to in another column.
Is there a way to write a script that can use the text file to lookup the old name and rename it to the new name?

GaryJuly 10, 2014

Hello,
Could you help me rename my photos.
I have them stored in my pictures by “year”, sub folder “month”, and subfolder “event title”. I was wanting to take the different jpeg file names from different cameras (some POO*** and some DSC***) and have the files renamed according to the year,month,event and numbered 001 through 999 (some of my folders contain over 100 photos). Would you be so kind as to describe how to perform this.
Thank you

JankensApril 13, 2017

Give a try to KrojamSoft BatchRename you can easily rename batch files.

GaryAugust 31, 2018

The heading says Files or Folders but there are no examples of folder renames. The preview feature shows that the rename applies to files not the folders.

I want to change mm-dd-yyyy named folders to yyyy-mm-dd format. I can do that for files but folders are ignored.

Did you not realize folders are treated different by several rename utilities?

linglomAugust 31, 2018

Bulk rename utility can rename files and folders.
The preview feature also works for folders.

If you want to change folder name from ‘mm-dd-yyyy’ to ‘yyyy-mm-dd’, use this config:
RegEx(1)
Match: (\d\d)-(\d\d)-(\d\d\d\d)
Replace: \3-\1-\2